Fr e e Pr e ss Page 8 Colby Free Press Monday, June 15, 2009 SSpp o o r r t t ss Former Jayhawk guard to hold camp in Colby By Andy Heintz second, from 2 to 4 p.m., will be Boschee at the clinics. Colby Free Press for athletes in the seventh, eighth Boschee has been holding the [email protected] and ninth grades. clinics for four years now all over Boschee said the camp will the state of . This year, he Former Kansas basketball star feature a lot of basic fundamen- will hold camps at Colby, Salina, Jeff Boschee will be holding a tals, including ball handling and Ellis, Kansas City and El Dorado. clinic for grade-school and junior passing. The camp costs $65 per Boschee made the most three high players at Colby High School camper. Each camper will get a T- pointers in Kansas history – 338 for the third straight summer on shirt, a backpack and autographs – during the four years he played Monday and Tuesday, June 29 and from the coaches and players. A for the Jayhawks under Roy Wil- 30. current player for KU or the Uni- liams from 1998 to 2002. He is The camp will have two sessions versity of Missouri will assist with currently coaching the Barstow each day. The first will be from 10 the clinic. David Devaney, assis- High School boys varsity basket- a.m. to noon for boys and girls in tant coach at Blue Valley North- ball team in Kansas City, Mo. the third through sixth grades. The west High School, works with Rockies win eleventh straight, hammering the Mariners 7-1 DENVER (AP) — Nothing can things go bad, because you can al- “We played great baseball in the slow down the streaking Colo- ways turn them around.” first two games in St. Louis, and rado Rockies — not even tornado The Rockies won 11 straight you could see an easiness to the warnings. from Sept. 16-27, 2007, when group by game three in St. Louis,” Garrett Atkins and Todd Helton they surged to the NL wild card. Tracy said. “Then when we got to had three hits each and the Rock- They won 14 of their last 15 regu- Milwaukee, I saw belief.” ies beat the Seattle Mariners 7-1 lar games that season, including a Hammel (4-3) gave up one run on Sunday, matching the franchise one-game playoff against San Di- on five hits in 5 1-3 innings. He record with their 11th straight ego to win the wild card. struck out six and didn’t walk a win. Colorado then won seven batter to earn his fourth straight Colorado’s starters have won 10 straight playoff games, sweep- win. times during the streak. ing Philadelphia in the divisional Seattle starter Jason Vargas Jason Hammel said he felt playoff and Arizona in the league (2-2) gave up seven runs and 12 strong, but a 55-minute rain delay championships before being swept hits, walked two and struck out in the top of the sixth, which also by in the World Series af- four in 4 2-3 innings. included a tornado warning for the ter an eight-day layoff. “I thought I had things going Denver area, kept him from pitch- Sunday, they finished off a when I struck out the side in the ing deeper into the game. sweep of a team that was playing third,” Vargas said. “I just got off “I saw at least seven for sure,” well. The Mariners had won four track in the fifth and they really Hammel said. “I’ve never had to straight series and 9 of 13 games opened up the game.” deal with tornadoes. I’ve never overall entering the series. Ichiro Suzuki had two hits for found the other team being Moth- “We came in here on a roll,” Seattle. er Nature.” first baseman Russell Branyan Ahead 2-1 after four, the Rock- MONICA KANE/Colby Free Press Brad Hawpe doubled twice and said. “They got the best of us.” ies blew it open in the fifth. Helton O.T. Johnson, assistant coach at the University of North Carolina, Pembroke in southeast North Clint Barmes had two hits for The Rockies tied the Red Sox and Atkins started the inning with Carolina, helped young wrestlers at Daniel Cormier Camp on June 5 and 6 at Colby Colorado, which has swept three for the longest win streak in the singles and Hawpe doubled to left High School. straight series and is 13-4 under majors this year. The Sox won 11 to drive in Helton. One out later, interim manager Jim Tracy. in a row from April 15-27. Troy Tulowitzki was intentionally “Every day we walk out on the The streak began after losing walked and Chris Iannetta drove a field we expect to win,” Helton three in a row at . Colo- double to the wall in left-center to College wrestling icon said. “In the big leagues, you’re rado salvaged the final game of clear the bases. facing good teams, and some- that series before sweeping four After Hammel grounded out, times it doesn’t happen, and that’s games in St. Louis and three more rookie Dexter Fowler doubled coaches young athletes why you don’t get too down when in Milwaukee. home Iannetta to make it 7-1.

By Andy Heintz eral people at the camp, includ- high school athletes would attend Colby Free Press ing O.T. Johnson, a University of the camp next summer. Business Lost on the Internet... [email protected] North Carolina, Pembroke assis- “A lot of people missed out by tant coach, and Obe Blanc, an All- not being there,” said Lampe, “but American senior wrestler at Okla- when you have a small group like wrestling legend Daniel Cormier homa State. More than 40 kids that, the kids who show up really held a camp at Colby High School attended the camp, said Lampe. benefit.” last weekend for wrestlers from 5 Cormier said he had the kids Lampe complimented the way to 17, bringing a couple of well- work on base techniques. He taught Cormier communicated with the known friends with him. them to pivot on their knees, get to wrestlers. The camp June 5 and 6 consist- their feet and go through their op- “He had a great rapport with ed of two 2 1/2-hour sessions each ponent. them,” said Lampe. “He jokes with day. It was attended by students “Little subtle changes can turn them and he challenges them.” from Goodland, Oakley, Hoxie you from a junior high state cham- C.B. Dolloway, a star wrestler and Colby, said Steve Lampe, pion into a high school state cham- on the Trojans’ wrestling team in coach of the college wrestling pion,” he said. 2002 and 2003, will be holding a team. “He teaches great fundamen- camp in the fall, the coach said. The fee was $50 per camper, tals,” added Lampe. “He’s good at Dolloway placed first and third in and the money went to the Trojan coaching technique.” the national tournament in his two wrestling program. Lampe said The former Olympian said the years wrestling for the Trojans and the camp raised about $660 for athletes did some live wrestling went on to become an All-Ameri- the team. at the camp where they could put can at Arizona State University. “It was a great gesture on his the techniques they had learned to He is currently competing in the part,” the coach said. use. Ultimate Fighting Championship. Cormier was assisted by sev- Cormier said he hoped more Lakers defeat Orlando 99-86; team wins 15th championship ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Kobe Auerbach for the most by a coach with Bryant before the pair had a Bryant jumped and punched the in league history. major falling out, was glad to see air. He did it again, seven years of For Paul Gasol. For Derek Fish- his former teammate win another. pent up frustration freed in a fit of er. For Lamar Odom. For Trevor “Congratulations kobe, u de- We Can Help ! joy. Ariza and for Andrew Bynum and serve it,” O’Neal said on his Twit- This was the one he wanted the rest of the Lakers, this was a ter page. “You played great. Enjoy more than all the others. title to savor. it my man enjoy it.” Join John Dehn for an The one to top them all. Odom scored 17 points, Ari- Bryant and Jackson, whose re- One year after failing miserably za had 15, Gasol 14 and 15 re- lationship strained and briefly Internet business seminar! in the finals against Boston, Bry- bounds, and Fisher, whose two snapped under the weight of suc- ant and the Los Angeles Lakers big 3s in Game 4 saved L.A., had cess, are again at the top of their # found redemption. They finished a 13 points. games. season they felt was theirs with a It took longer than Bryant ex- Together. RESERVE YOUR PLACE 99-86 win over the Orlando Magic pected, but he has stepped from Following the game, the pair on Sunday night in Game 5 to win O’Neal’s enormous shadow — at shared a long embrace. In GoodlandIn Colby fromfrom 44 p.m.to 5:30 to 5:30p.m. p.m. the 15th NBA title in franchise last. Jackson, who once called Bry- history. Bryant averaged 32.4 points, ant “a selfish player,” now sees For Bryant, this was the missing 7.4 assists, 5.6 rebounds and more the 30-year-old in a far different piece from his resume, his fourth than a dozen cold-blooded glares light. Call (785) 462-1149 for dates championship and first with- per game. He wasn’t out to make “He’s learned how to become out former teammate Shaquille friends in these finals, he was out a leader in a way in which peo- O’Neal. for redemption. Throughout the ple want to follow him,” Jackson $10 reg. fee “I don’t have to hear that criti- playoffs, he didn’t smile. He just said. cism, that idiotic criticism any- snarled and bared his teeth. “That’s really important for more,” said Bryant, the finals “I was just completely locked him to have learned that because MVP. “It was annoying.” in,” he said. “I was grumpy for a he knew that he had to give to get For Lakers coach Phil Jackson, while and now I’m just ecstatic, back in return, and so he’s become this was title No. 10, moving him like a kid in a candy store.” a giver rather than just a guy that’s 155 W. 5th1205 St. Main • 785-462-3963 Street (785) 899-2338 past legendary Celtics coach Red O’Neal, who won three titles a demanding leader.”

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